How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP). For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

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M. Sincell. 2000. NanoManipulator Lets Chemists Go Mano a Mano With Molecules. Science 290, 5496 (November 2000), 1530.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Weimerskirch and R. P. Wilson. 2000. Oceanic respite for wandering albatrosses. Nature 406, 6799 (August 2000), 955–956.

A journal article with 3 authors

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James E. Richardson, H. Jay Melosh, and Richard Greenberg. 2004. Impact-induced seismic activity on asteroid 433 Eros: a surface modification process. Science 306, 5701 (November 2004), 1526–1529.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Emilie Guerin, Guillaume Cambray, Neus Sanchez-Alberola, Susana Campoy, Ivan Erill, Sandra Da Re, Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn, Jordi Barbé, Marie-Cécile Ploy, and Didier Mazel. 2009. The SOS response controls integron recombination. Science 324, 5930 (May 2009), 1034.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

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Robert Evans. 2010. Seven Secrets of the Savvy School Leader. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, USA.

An edited book

[1]

Pathik Rawal. 2015. Develop on Yammer: Social Integration for Modern Business Applications. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

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Steven Cannon. 2009. Maximally Smooth Diatonic Trichord Cycles. In Mathematics and Computation in Music: Second International Conference, MCM 2009, John Clough Memorial Conference New Haven, CT, USA, June 19-22, 2009. Proceedings, Elaine Chew, Adrian Childs and Ching-Hua Chuan (eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 43–56.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications.

Blog post

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Danielle Andrew. 2015. Scientists Remove 12 Centimeter Plastic STRAW From Sea Turtle’s Nose. IFLScience.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

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Government Accountability Office. 1999. Customs Service Modernization: Actions Initiated to Correct ACE Management and Technical Weaknesses. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

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Jonathan Peto. 2009. A defense of Donald Davidson’s dissolution to the problem of global skepticism. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

George Gene Gustines. 2015. From ‘Rocket Girl’ to Karaoke Superstar. New York Times, MB2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [5–8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
ISSN (print)	1551-6857
ISSN (online)	1551-6865
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Hardware and Architecture